Apparently Apparently Michael Bloomberg is not running after all. But that doesn’t mean he’s going to stay on the sidelines, he warns: In the weeks and months ahead, I will continue to work to steer the national conversation away from partisanship and toward unity; away from ideology and toward common sense; away from sound bites […]
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BLOOMBERG WATCH.
Though he Though he keeps denying that he’s entertaining the idea of running for president, the Associated Press reports that Michael Bloomberg “may soon begin a massive operation to get on the ballot in up to 15 states,” but he might not make a decision on running until May. “[A]ssociates say the mayor and his […]
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Michael Bloomberg, Fascist?
By Ankush I wonder if this is a preview of the type of analysis we’ll get when Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism finally comes out and we can all bask in the glory of his very serious, thoughtful argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care: What’s not O.K. is […]
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BLOOMBERG AS DEM…
BLOOMBERG AS DEM VP CANDIDATE? When Michael Bloomberg announced he was leaving the Republican Party, my initial reaction was that it was a disaster for the Democrats. If he ran as an independent candidate for president, Bloomberg would almost certainly cut into the votes of self-identified independents that Democrats picked up in 2006 and that […]
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BLOOMBERG 2008? …
BLOOMBERG 2008? I’d always assumed that if Mike Bloomberg runs, he’d take votes primarily from the Democrats. According to these polls, however, I’m not a very good political prognosticator. –Ezra Klein